Oceania Map Quiz: Name All the Countries of Oceania

Oceania has just 14 countries, but don't let the number fool you — this is pound-for-pound one of the trickiest continent quizzes. Beyond Australia, New Zealand, and Papua New Guinea lie eleven Pacific island nations most players have never had to name in their lives.

Those eleven scatter across three vast cultural regions — Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia — and several are so small they'd vanish on an ordinary map. Finish this quiz and the Pacific section of the full world map stops being your weak spot.

How to play

• Type the countries in any order; island microstates are drawn as circles in the Pacific so every nation stays visible.
• Lenient matching plus local names — Aotearoa is accepted for New Zealand.
• The clock counts up; give up to reveal any islands you couldn't place.

What counts in this quiz

• 14 sovereign states: Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, and 11 Pacific island nations.
• All 14 are UN member states — Oceania is the one continent group in this quiz with no disputed inclusions.

What's not included — and why

• The Cook Islands and Niue — self-governing in free association with New Zealand, but not UN members, so they don't count as countries here.
• Territories of larger states — Guam and American Samoa (US), French Polynesia and New Caledonia (France) are dependencies, not countries.
• Hawaii is a US state and Easter Island belongs to Chile — both are Pacific, neither is a country.

Good to know

• Papua New Guinea has more than 800 living languages — the most of any country on Earth.
• Nauru is the smallest island nation in the world — you can drive around the entire country in well under an hour.
• Tuvalu earns real national revenue from licensing its .tv internet domain.
• Kiribati was the first country to greet the year 2000, thanks to a 1995 date-line shift that put all its islands on the same side of the calendar.